as the u.s. election campaign and the final straight with the two rival still neck and neck we'll look at how the race is increasingly resembling a reality show rather than a political face off. over a thousand rally for greater autonomy for leaving his main oil hob as a country still torn by conflict over a year since the western backed revolution. you as looking into what it's branded a shocking video with its suspects which it's expected to be evidence of a war crime committed by the syrian rebels.

this is already going to live from moscow with me. now there are just four days left before the u.s. presidential election but even on the final stretch barack obama and mitt romney remain effectively tied with neither debates nor a devastating hurricane giving either candidate a tangible advantage questions are mounting what the most expensive campaign in the country's history has really achieved and there is a growing feeling it was more about impressing the viewer than talking real politics as are two necessary churkin and now explains some time fire in. the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget a tax this president we've all agreed that families are off limits. dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level

of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out eliminating contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally in the grant did you have two survivors to go head to head and they in that video yes the big is the big prize the big prize for years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v.

like in any major production a huge crew and big box run the game if they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know there's a list opportunity for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements you know most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop other things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debate is the first u.s. presidential debate of two thousand well had an audience of fifty eight million viewers that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. and you know in about track record about taxes. year in year most of the coverage of. ice icons you spreading

a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's feelings as obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on until. the curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house the superficial media paying a little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to team and remains king and politics not much more than a circus and if there's a trick in a party. now when a presidential race bears all the signs of a stage show there are legitimate concerns about how commits the candidates are to making their campaign statements and reality u.s. national security expert gareth porter share his views on which election promises are likely to remain nothing more than part of a t.v. performance the issues of u.s.

national security policy and the military i'm sorry to say that i don't believe. obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to ann's u.s. involvement in the war in afghanistan and the fact is the obama administration has made the decision that there will be a residual force of at least ten thousand for an indefinite period of time i think the closest romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise. is perhaps the idea that they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not made with much conviction in the campaign in the last presidential debate romney was really more a saying me too to president obama's policy toward iran. both candidates have their

own ways dealing with the aftermath of hurricane sandy in an attempt to break the pre-vote down block with campaigning now fully back on track our residents new yorker laurie harvest has been finding out who came through with the best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan or sixty four and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere the beach was in the street do you think the government has handled the storm well you know how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is down there no i think they're just really slow to respond i mean the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to

have three people in a car i use they're going to vote on tuesday is that no then. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be going. to be. able to pull their lives together yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster then hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this hurricane and the election behind us.

while the will of course continue our coverage of u.s. elections here on our team looking at the race from different perspectives plus our team is hosting a very special event this coming monday as we're exclusively bringing you the final round of the third party candidates debate wife from our washington studios. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power of the. what is america changes. this election please guide monday november fifth on our team. right let's now turn to libya where more than a thousand people took to the streets of benghazi the cradle of the uprising calling for greater autonomy of the oil rich region protesters complain the new leadership has deprived the city of its fair share of political and economic power

let's not get the latest from our middle eastern correspondents sleazier hello to you paula so what exactly do the protesters in benghazi demand. well more than a thousand protesters have taken to the streets of the eastern city of benghazi they're calling for greater autonomy send if they feel marginalized by the new government in tripoli now this comes to little more than a year on after the ouster of the format libyan leader moammar gadhafi and i asked ironically that of that the people of benghazi played such a central role in bringing about they are now saying that they were better off before the revolution that the whole eastern part of the country is marginalized and deprived of political and economic power now what they want is an autonomous region in the east we're talking here about roughly half the territory of libya and around three quarters of the country's last oil reserves what they also want to step in ghazi will become the economic capital of libya what this means is that you

will have key institutions such as the central bank as well as the ministries of oil and finance based in the city now this is not a new court earlier this year we did see tribal leaders come together with the same demands they say that they want to manage their own affairs and also have a larger share of revenue from the resources that are in the east of the country what they warning is that if the demands are ignored they will be dire consequences and certainly what we witnessing is a growing mood of tension and discontent in the country that is being torn apart by protesters just a year on after the so-called revolution. all right paul thanks very much indeed for this obviously our middle east correspondent policy. now the un is examining a video which it says could be evidence of a war crime committed by the syrian rebels that newly released online food is

purportedly shows opposition fighters summarily executing captured government troops solvers are no longer believed to be competence are apparently shelled being beaten and lined up on the ground i want to show you the next disturbing scene but of a man who were then repeatedly shot with automatic rifles investigative journalist james corbat says it's a rare case that the tactics of the opposition forces come under international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous documents coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been

conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and it has be hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in core the include any enforcement language which is a political long starter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washed. inten is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept

anything short of that so i think they're content to watch these atrocities and in these murders in executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington now and the rain a recent bound public rallies has failed to deter protesters from taking to the streets of several towns on friday there are reports of polling of brutality towards the anti-government demonstrators and the arrests of those documenting the attacks now this comes amid a judicial crackdown with yet another activist sentenced to six months in jail for allegedly insulting the king on twitter conk of l. the former a lecturer and the university on rain says it's too late for international condemnation to improve the situation and the gulf country. to jail someone for voicing their opinion. of expression it violates any standards of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except

that the regime is learning to play the world media like of us. they claim they support human rights they claim they are instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes and that there are just rosy and borrowing meanwhile they can do neither crackdown they continue the torture they continue to do and they continue the killings in bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the book relation. or out of it that the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty years mostly they most of the other was there will be no social feat in bahrain in the situation that will continue to get more chaotic also i had for you this hour shocking you to a healthier lifestyle for your one radical approach to turning people off junk food with the help of deadly diseases and the story is coming up after

a short break. horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dog did to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet whole he but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy to. about big bird who howard dean scream. gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more

importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can say proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponents army of photoshop are sort of hundreds of copper fellas is drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet names but that's just my opinion. more news today violence has once again fled of. these are the images real world and seeing from history and canada. china operations through today.

what will change when america picks its president i mean the muslim rage working the iran tight rope pushing china russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will there be. a selection of clothes guys every day to have a face r t.

what about here with r t now russia's premier and miter made van of says members of the conover full pussy riot feminist group should not have been given jail sentences for they are stunned and moscow's main cathedral by the same time innovative also said their morals leave a lot to be desired motion. it's you see these are people you know very unpleasant to me by on the outside and only in could and they filled me with extreme negative emotions and still so much so that i don't like talking about them

move to the moon but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough. now three members of the posi riot band were found guilty of holiness and motivated by religious hatred after performing their so-called punk prayer in moscow's christ the savior cathedral they were sentenced to two year jail terms but after an appeal hearing or one of them was released on probation the women insist they are stunt was a political one aimed against the authorities now the case has caused outrage among the religious community and split the russian public. now more news for you online you case fighter jets heard roaring round the skies of the persian gulf rumors are spreading fast that london made a poised jets and growing tension between israel and iran over tehran's nuclear

program warning that at r.t. dot com. plus the long way home online we've got a story of eleven women who have been held captive in a supermarket. now as doctors around the globe sound the alarm against a rising in obesity and it's dire health consequences medics in canada have come up with a graphic idea of how to warn against the risks but one man's meat as another man's poison as they say the proposal is fast becoming a hot potato. and explains. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food

well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with the growing epidemic of obesity the on tyrion medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporary's book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those who make or enjoy eating the targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food categories carrying bacco to every day and beverage items is nonsensical smoking tobacco do not really have a balance in

a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warnings on i can absolutely heart of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker who you know they pick up their cigarettes that make. their blind a little bit i don't think that stuff. the body the photos are engineer today in the private lab the borders of foods are engineering today in many cases to be addictive to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law

to change that kind of a new content you're not going to have any solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world one person has been killed at least eight others injured after a passenger train collided with a lorry in the australian capital the train driver was seriously wounded am remains in a critical but stable condition while the truck driver escaped with only minor injuries local officials say they don't get to know why the accident occurred an investigation is now underway. one of the most important christian pilgrimage destinations and jerusalem has announced it shutting its doors the church of the holy supple core built on a hill where believers say jesus was crucified is protesting sudden demands to pay

off its two million dollar water bill to the israeli state water authority it's appealing to israeli governments claiming the move undermines the sanctity of the site. now coming up in just a few minutes here in our team spotlight without. looking at some dorks you simply do not believe they come speak and good news how they can run oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very

much like a lasco and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia and now let's try and come to this remote ration village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing. but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here a toll it wasn't the tough mushers of sled dog racing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all friends who brought their idea to life. five years ago of a bill to dock kennel in the village kids from the local open h. came round to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training baffle legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly updates their websites and they're in touch with

the busy ma the twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my own interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether part of scale is hoskins window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts.

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a spot like the interview show on artsy. to day my guest is. scott a. good sound sports both great success and great desperate athletes break their backs to the ground the best put aside their entire lives but a single accident can make all the effort go down the great two years ago a promising russian bobsled a real school of thought was terribly injured during a european cup training session she nearly a lost soul lead went through numerous surgeries but she's getting better at liz and not giving up so what does it take not to lose heart such a tragedy and start from scratch when you were almost a third were asking to hear a girl herself feel what. it really was at the very beginning how professional can really emotionally racing when who life was turned

upside down and a two thousand and nine training run in germany. did with another due to a mistake by a track to see show when her team was cleared to start despite the pretty big different lights being on during the suffering here if injuries whose multiple fractures to her hips and back german doctors fought to save life they initially planned to amputate her leg but eventually managed to save it was kept in the news . a coma for nearly two months after the accident she has undergone you murderous operations and her rehabilitation is not yet complete the young athletes story evoked a huge public response my need for eeriness recovery was raised both in russia and enjoy many doctors call her rehabilitation a reckless a one in one hundred case they german bobsled referee who wrongfully ok.